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Hands-on: ‘Paranormal Activity: The Lost Soul’ is Poised to Become VR’s Next Big Frightener
Jump scares are universally hated by horror film and game enthusiasts alike for being 'cheap thrills', and are oft considered the low-hanging fruit of the genre. Suspense and existential dread however are much harder to manufacture in a horror...
First Look: Striker VR Reveals Latest Prototype Design and Impressive Haptic Effects
Striker VR is moving ahead with their haptic gun technology that we've been anticipating for some time now. The company today has revealed their latest prototype design of the 'ARENA Infinity' which is headed first to out-of-home VR arcade...
Oculus Teases Unreleased ‘Quill’ Animation Tools
Oculus Story Studio Art Director Goro Fujita has teased an unreleased build of the Quill VR paint app with experimental animation features. Released earlier this year, Quill allows users to create still 3D drawings in VR. Using the new animation...
Google Announces ‘WorldSense’ Inside-out Tracking for Standalone Daydream VR Headsets
Google today announced that standalone VR headsets are coming to Daydream, the first of which will be made by HTC and Lenovo. Supporting these new devices is an inside-out positional tracking system that the company is calling 'WorldSense', which...
Oculus Says Consumer Rift Has IPD Adjustment and Better Design for Glasses
Oculus today addressed a longstanding concern with the Rift VR headset by announcing that the consumer model would feature a physical IPD adjustment. The company also says that they've made the headset more comfortable for those with glasses.
Although the company...
NextVR’s Stereoscopic 360-degree VR Cam Uses $180,000 Worth of RED 6K Cameras
The first glimpse at NextVR's camera rig for recording stereoscopic 360 degree video for VR has been revealed in new photos. The camera platform uses the six of the RED Epic Dragon cameras to capture up to 6K resolution...
Intel & Major League Baseball Partnership Will Bring Free Weekly Games Streamed in VR
Live VR broadcasts from the world's biggest sporting leagues are steadily becoming easier to find. A major new three year partnership between Intel and MLB, America's leading baseball league, will bring weekly live baseball games streamed in VR for free to...
These Tiny Sensors Will Let You Build Lighthouse Tracked Headsets and Peripherals
With Valve's move to open up its Lighthouse tracking technology to third parties, Triad Semiconductor is soon to be selling specialized chips which companies can use to create new VR headsets and peripherals with SteamVR Tracking.
Last month Valve finally made the...
‘Chess Ultra’ is Bringing its Luxurious Game Environments to PSVR, Oculus Rift, and HTC Vive
Ripstone Games, makers of Pure Chess (2012), are bringing their upcoming sequel Chess Ultra to PlayStationVR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. The classic chess game features a number of beautifully rendered environments that will finally make you feel like the rich and magnanimous...
‘NewRetroArcade’ is a Brilliantly Detailed 80’s Arcade That Will Take You on a VR Nostalgia Trip
Developer Digital Cybercherries has just released NewRetroArcade, a brilliantly detailed 80's arcade that's built in Unreal Engine 4. Inside, players are taken on a nostalgia trip, able to play any one of many working arcade machines representing classic titles. The...
‘Alien: Isolation’ is One of VR’s Missed Opportunities, But There’s Still Hope
Alien: Isolation is one of the best VR games never released. We look back at why the title was so revered by VR enthusiasts and that there's now finally hope we'll see an official VR release after all.
One of the...
‘Freedom Locomotion System’ is a Comprehensive Package for VR Movement
Moving around comfortably and immersively in VR remains a hurdle for VR game developers. VR studio Huge Robot has created the Freedom Locomotion System which brings together a number of VR movement systems into a comprehensive and functional package which allows for...
Here’s Every Morpheus Game Sony is Demoing at E3 2015
We scrounged, scraped, and combed for every single Morpheus game currently demoing in Sony's booth at E3 2015 in Los Angeles. Here's our complete list, coming to 17 impressively varied VR demos for the PlayStation 4.
Trackmania Turbo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3piye62BYf4
Trackmania Turbo, the newest installment...
Oculus Getting Serious About Room-scale VR, Dropping ‘Experimental’ Tag
As of the upcoming version 1.15, Oculus software will "fully support" the three-sensor room-scale configuration, giving VR players a large 360 degree playspace to roam, similar to the experience the Vive offered out of the gate. The update was...
Kopin Unveils ‘Lightning’ 2k x 2k 120Hz OLED Microdisplay for Mobile VR
Display specialists Kopin have unveiled a tiny, high resolution OLED 'microdisplay' designed specifically for the use inside immersive headsets. It's dubbed 'Lightning' and it could open the door to a thinner and lighter form of VR headset.
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